Ibrahim Bek

Ibrahim Bek (1889-31 August 1931) was a leader of the Basmachi movement during the Basmachi Revolt of the 1920s.

Biography
Ibrahim Bek was born to the Lakai tribe of Uzbeks in eastern Bukhara in 1889. He became an Islamic religious conservative, and he supported the emirs. Bek becmae a leader of the Basmachi movement during the Basmachi Revolt against the Soviets in the 1920s, and he fought against Enver Pasha during his brief time in Central Asia. He was a good guerrilla leader, but he was a relic of older time, and his military tactics were out of step from the tactics used during the Russian Civil War. He was defeated by Mikhail Frunze's Soviet troops in the spring of 1925, despite having allegedly been provided assistance from British intelligence services. He was eventually forced to flee south into Afghanistan, from where he led cross-border raids into the Soviet Union. He was later betrayed by Tajik rebels and executed in 1931.